Iron Dynasty

In addition to the Imperial Central Bank, China Construction Bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank, and Agricultural Bank have also been established. These classified banks have their own functions and are responsible for providing loans to different industries. At the same time, the Imperial Stock Exchange is also about the same. A series of stocks such as treasury bonds can be officially issued to the outside world.”

Yang Chengye turned a page of the report and continued: As for the industry, under the supervision of the lower officials, the major provinces are now carrying out vigorous industrial construction, and each Shangzhou has established its own large-scale industrial zone. Xiazhou is also setting up factories, and the number of factories in the country has doubled, which can be described as a gratifying increase.

Xiao Ming was flipping through Yang Chengye's report. Hearing this, he turned to the end, and the more than 30 pages of paper on it really recorded the name, type, and size of each factory in the empire.

After looking around, Xiao Ming showed a smile. Unconsciously, the industrial capacity of the empire has been greatly increased.

It is only in Qingzhou that many professional machinery factories have been established during this period, such as factories specializing in the production of steam locomotives, bearing factories producing bearings, bicycle factories producing bicycles and tricycles, and electric motor factories producing electric motors. It can be said that the research led by Lin Wentao For every set of machinery that the laboratory has thoroughly grasped, a corresponding factory will come out immediately.

And after these factories appeared in Qingzhou, they would soon spread to other prosperous prefectures and counties.

After talking about the construction of the factory, Yang Chengye reported the problems of commercial construction, which took half an hour in total.

After Yang Chengye's report was over, Xiao Ming asked Song Changping, Chen Qi, Lin Wentao, Lu Tong, and He Dong to report the problems in their respective fields.

He Dong and Lin Wentao needless to say, internal combustion engines, automobiles, telephones, and telegraphs are their achievements. As for Lutong, although low-key this year, he has done a lot of things, such as oil refining, oxygen, nitrogen purification and various basic chemicals. Production has made good progress.

These things may seem inconspicuous, but they are very important to the development of all walks of life.

As for the two arms experts Song Changping and Chen Qi, they are upgrading the Han-style rifle and the current guard artillery, and the specific samples will be available tomorrow.

After inquiring about science and technology, Xiao Ming finally looked at Pang Yukun and asked him to have a general summary of all aspects of the empire.

Your Majesty, according to statistics, the total income of the industrial and commercial tax of the empire this year is 60 million gold dragons, and the agricultural tax is 40 million gold dragons. In terms of taxation, the commercial tax exceeds the agricultural tax. The industrial and commercial tax has now become the main body of the empire's tax revenue, while in the industrial and commercial tax, government-run factories are The tax revenue from the He Chamber of Commerce accounts for 60%, and it is the main source of commercial tax.”

After a pause, Pang Yukun said proudly: In addition to paying taxes, the government-run factories also turned in a considerable profit this year, reaching 120 million gold dragons, and the Qingzhou Chamber of Commerce paid 280 million in profits. In terms of the war income, the empire has an income of 90 million golden dragons, which mainly comes from the reparations and spoils of the occupied areas.

Among all the year-end reports, Xiao Ming likes to hear Pang Yukun's report the most, because at this moment he can clearly know the financial situation of the empire this year.

Speaking of the tax situation, Pang Yukun continued: Up to now, the denomination of the Golden Dragon issued by the Imperial Central Bank has reached 9 billion, including both paper money and gold coins.

Xiao Ming showed a satisfied smile upon hearing this. From this figure, he could judge that the taxation of the empire was normal.

So this year's total imperial product has increased by 3 billion gold dragons? Xiao Ming asked.

Pang Yukun was taken aback, he said: How did the emperor know about it?

With a slight smile, Xiao Ming said: The taxation system of the empire is established by me. Basically, the total amount of tax revenue will be 16% of the annual gross domestic product. I still know this in my heart.

Pang Yukun was stunned. He was already looking up at Xiao Ming, but he found that the more contact he got, the more he could not surpass the emperor in front of him. He said, The emperor is holy.

Then he said: Compared to last year, the popularity of power plants has greatly increased the production capacity of the factories, which is why there are so many taxes this year, and under the emperor's governance, the people of the empire are getting richer day by day, although the empire has opened up a lot overseas. market, but the goods produced by the empire are still largely digested domestically.”

The market of the empire is the biggest cake. There is no doubt about this. Just at the current growth rate of the empire's industry, within three years, the domestic market will be saturated, and the overseas market will become very important. Xiao Ming said.

As soon as his voice fell, Li Kaiyuan stood up at this time, and he said: Your Majesty, just based on the experience of doing business overseas during this period of time as an official, even the rest of the world may only have a market equal to that of the Empire. , their spending power is so poor that they can’t afford the empire’s commodities at all, and if things go on like this, the empire’s industry will inevitably encounter bottlenecks.”

You see it very accurately. Xiao Ming said lightly, in this era, the number of people in the world is limited.

And most of the population is self-sufficient, they have no demand for many industrial products, such as Japan, the Philippines, India, Indonesia, Africa and other places will not buy imperial bicycles, even in Europe, not everyone can afford it .

If you want people in these places to buy bicycles, you have to let this place have a wealthy class, and at the same time these classes have a demand for buying bicycles.

In order to achieve this goal, cultural penetration is needed, so that these regions are fashionable with the fashion of the Chinese Empire, which is simply to establish the cultural influence of the empire.

If you want to break this cage, you can only rely on the empire itself. If other countries have no demand, we will create this demand. If they can't afford it, we will let them afford it. Next, the empire's colonial strategy should be more elegant.

Wenya. All the ministers looked at Xiao Ming.

Standing up from the dragon chair, he said: Colonization is not only a method of force, cultural colonization, economic colonization are all colonization, the empire can now transfer the seriously polluting industries overseas, and at the same time establish its own way of cultural export. sphere of influence.

When he spoke, he looked at the gray sky of Qingzhou. The industry in the steam engine era required a lot of burning coal, which made Qingzhou's green mountains and green waters gone forever.

However, there is no way to do this, because this is the price of industrialization, but now that the colonies in Southeast Asia are under his control, he can completely transfer some of the heavily polluting manufacturing industries there.